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The secret ingredient: quirky travel tipshttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/may/21/travel-tips-delhi-tokyo-peru
What's the best way to get to know a place? Our writers reveal canny – even cheeky – ways to uncover what the guide books don't tell you – from lining up local mates to inviting yourself into someone's home<p>&quot;We might be moving here in a couple of months,&quot; I lied to the estate agent showing my husband and me round a swanky show home in Tokyo. &quot;And we wanted to look at a few places.&quot; More lies. &quot;My company's relocating me,&quot; fibbed my partner in crime.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/may/21/travel-tips-delhi-tokyo-peru">Continue reading...</a>TravelAdventure travelCity breaksTokyoDelhiBarcelonaSri LankaJordanPeruColombiaTravel writingFri, 20 May 2011 23:05:12 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/may/21/travel-tips-delhi-tokyo-peruMoe KaferA market in Urubamba, Sacred Valley, Peru. Photograph: Moe KaferGetty Images/Image SourceGemma Bowes swears by a taxi tour. Photograph: Getty Images/Image SourceNick WhiteWhere there’s muck, there’s gold … an unassuming doorway led to this jewellery factory in Delhi where the workers also lived, and ate. Photograph: Nick WhiteNick WhiteWhere there's muck, there's gold … an unassuming doorway led to this jewellery factory in Delhi where the workers also lived, and ate Photograph: Nick WhiteGuardian Staff2011-05-20T23:05:12ZBlistering barnacles, Tintin, it's the rose-red cityhttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/oct/19/tintin-adventure-jordan-petra
In the days before TV, Tintin took his readers to places they had never seen before. Georgia Brown joins a new Tintin expedition to Jordan to find out if the comic-book hero can inspire modern-day fans to follow in his globetrotting footsteps<p>A small Belgian hack with a blond quiff might not seem like an obvious travelling muse to inspire people to visit the wonders of the world, but Tintin gave generations of readers their first glimpse of exotic countries and adventure travel.</p><p>In the days before TV, the clear-line graphics of creator Georges R&eacute;mi, aka Herg&eacute;, were a kind of National Geographic for kids. From Russia to Tibet, Egypt to America, Tintin travelled – accompanied by his faithful dog Snowy and the irascible Captain Haddock - to solve crimes and become an early champion of the rights of local indigenous people in 23 books published from 1929 onwards.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/oct/19/tintin-adventure-jordan-petra">Continue reading...</a>JordanMiddle EastTravelPetra, JordanBooksTravel writingTintinLiterary tripsTue, 19 Oct 2010 15:12:46 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/oct/19/tintin-adventure-jordan-petraHergé/Moulinsart 2010Tintin at Petra, Jordan Photograph: Hergé/Moulinsart 2010Georgia Brown2010-10-19T15:12:46Z